Quotes with storm-wind

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  • Rabindranath Tagore Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bruce Lee Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Comte DeBussy-Rabutin Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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  • Anthony de Mello Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jimmy Dean I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
    Jimmy Dean
    American country music singer, actor, and businessman (1928 - 2010)
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  • Buddha If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Joseph Addison Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Aesop The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Jean Antoine Petit-Senn True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
    Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
    French poet (1792 - 1870)
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  • William Shakespeare What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bryan Cogman 'A Storm of Swords' is a massive volume, and it seemed like it would be shortchanging it to try to cram it into ten episodes.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Marcel Proust A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Jean Genet A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Anne Bronte A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • John Cheever A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Bill Owens A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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